Global Neurorecovery Dialogue Series
The Global Neurorecovery Dialogue Series brings together neuroscientists, clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, caregivers, advocates, and brain injury survivors to explore what recovery actually looks like over the months and years after brain injury.
Brain injury does not stay inside a scan, a neurological exam, or a discharge summary. It changes work, school, relationships, identity, independence, and the rhythms of everyday life.
This series puts those worlds in conversation—asking researchers what science can tell us, clinicians where care succeeds and breaks down, and survivors and caregivers what the system looks like from the other side.
Brain Injury Survivor · Member, California Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board
The Handouts and Nothing Else
Ryan left the hospital after a severe TBI with diagrams of brain hemorrhages—but no referrals, no follow-up appointments, and no roadmap for what recovery would require. Years later, he is helping build a clearer path for the next survivor.
RECOVER Program · Penn Medicine
Rethinking Recovery: On Neuroprognostication
What can consciousness research tell families—and where does uncertainty still remain?
Mind Your Brain Foundation
Recovery Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Why physical milestones can miss the cognitive, emotional, and everyday work of rebuilding a life.
Neurorecovery Clinic · Hartford Hospital
What Survivors Actually Need After the ICU
How neurorecovery clinics can bridge acute neurological care with the realities patients face at home.
Hemorrhagic Stroke Survivor · Co-Founder, GOTABI
Just Try Stuff
Recovery at nineteen: isolation, adaptation, invisible injury, and finding a young-adult community that understood.
Nurse of 30+ Years · Co-Founder, GOTABI · Caregiver
Knowing Enough to Be Dangerous
What happens when a nurse becomes the mother at the bedside—and still finds post-discharge care overwhelming.
Professor of Neurosurgery · NIMHANS Bengaluru
From Trauma Center Back to the Community
A global view of the missing referral pathway between life-saving acute care and long-term rehabilitation.
Shivek created the Global Neurorecovery Dialogue Series to put researchers, clinicians, survivors, and caregivers into the same conversation about a question that does not end at discharge: what does meaningful recovery actually require?
Across the series, he follows the same problem from different vantage points—brain science, clinical care, rehabilitation, caregiving, community reintegration, and lived experience.
We are actively seeking clinicians, researchers, and survivors for upcoming episodes.